findcon(1)                                                                                                            findcon(1)



NAME
       findcon - SELinux file context search tool

SYNOPSIS
       findcon FCLIST [OPTIONS] [EXPRESSION]

DESCRIPTION
       findcon  allows  the  user  to  search  for  files  with a specified context.  Results can be filtered by object class as
       described below.

FCLIST
       The findcon tool operates upon a file context list source.  There are three valid file context lists.

       directory
              If FCLIST is a name of a directory then begin the search at that directory and recurse within it.  Be  sure  there
              are no circular mounts within it.

       file_contexts
              If  FCLIST  is the name of a file_contexts file (e.g., /etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts) then open
              that file and find matching entries.

       database
              If FCLIST is the name of a database as created by a previous run of indexcon or apol then open  the  database  and
              execute queries into it.

EXPRESSION
       The  following  options  allow the user to specify which files to print.  A file must meet all specified criteria.  If no
       expression is provided, all files are printed.

       -t TYPE, --type=TYPE
              Search for files with a context containing the type TYPE.

       -u USER, --user=USER
              Search for files with a context containing the user USER.

       -r ROLE, --role=ROLE
              Search for files with a context containing the role ROLE.

       -m RANGE, --mls-range=RANGE
              Search for files with a context with the MLS range of RANGE.  Note that findcon ignores  the  SELinux  translation
              library, if present.  In addition, this flag is ignored if the FCLIST has no MLS information.

       --context=CONTEXT
              Search for files matching this partial context.  This flag overrides -t, -u, -r, and -m.

       -p PATH, --path=PATH
              Search for files which include PATH.

       -c CLASS, --class=CLASS
              Search only files of object class CLASS.

OPTIONS
       The following additional options are available.

       -R, --regex
              Search using regular expressions instead of exact string matching.  This option does not affect the --class flag.

       -h, --help
              Print help information and exit.

       -V, --version
              Print version information and exit.

PARTIAL CONTEXT
       The --context flag specifies a partial context, which is a a colon separated list of user, role, and type.  If the system
       supports MLS, the context may have a fourth field that gives the range.  If a field is not specified or  is  the  literal
       asterisk, then the query will always match the field.

OBJECT CLASSES
       Valid object class strings are

       block, char, dir, fifo, file, link, or sock.

NOTE
       The  findcon  utility always operates on "raw" SELinux file contexts.  If the system has an installed translation library
       (i.e., libsetrans), those translations are ignored in favor of reading the original  contexts  from  the  filesystem  (if
       FCFILE is a directory).

EXAMPLES
       findcon .
              Find every context in the current directory and all of its subdirectories.

       findcon -u user_u .
              Find every context whose user is user_u in the current directory and all subdirectories.

       findcon -u system_u -t bin_t file_contexts
              Find  entries user system_u and type bin_t within a file_contexts file, assuming that file_contexts is a file con-
              texts file.

       findcon --context=system_u::bin_t file_contexts
              This is equivalent to the previous example.

       findcon --context=system_u:*:bin_t:* file_contexts
              This is also equivalent to the above example.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Jeremy A. Mowery <jmoweryATtresys.com>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright(C) 2003-2007 Tresys Technology, LLC

BUGS
       Please report bugs via an email to setools-bugsATtresys.com.

SEE ALSO
       replcon(1), indexcon(1)



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